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Yoga Yoga Yoga Styles Beginners Poses & Workouts From Ann Pizer, your Guide to Yoga After you get past your initial mastery of some basic yoga poses, where do you go? There's always a way to challenge yourself and deepen your experience of a pose, making it what my teacher likes to call "comfortably edgy." If you notice complacency has started to creep into your practice, try the following suggestions. Deepen Your Knees in Utkatasana No longer feeling the burn in awkward chair? Maybe it's time to deepen your knees. Before your bring your arms up, bend your knees and brush your finger tips across the floor. Keep your knees this deep and raise your arms. Search Related Topics:  intermediate poses  standing poses  Take the Bind in Side Plank If your side plank has gotten a little ho-hum, move on to the full version, where you lift your top leg and grab your big toe. If that seems like a bit of a leap, you can try just lifting the top leg or bringing it into a tree position with the knee bent and the sole of your foot resting on the opposite thigh. Take it to the Wall in Camel In order to find your alignment in camel, take it over to the wall. Kneel down facing the wall with your thighs touching the wall. Reach back for your heels as you backbend, but keep the thighs and hip points on the wall. You may not be able to come into as deep a backbend, but your alignment will be safer and you will probably feel a quad stretch. Search Related Topics:  backbends  intermediate poses  Pose of the Week - Extended Side Angle In extended side angle, how dependent are you on the hand that's resting on the floor? If you'd probably topple over without it, experiment with easing some of your weight out of that hand and back into your legs. Lightening up on your bottom hand is going do wonders for your core too. Search Related Topics:  standing poses  beginning poses  Related Searches Meditation Yoga Bikram Yoga Clothes Yoga Exercise Yoga Asanas Hatha Yoga Poses Featured Articles Yoga Clothing and Equipment Yoga and Your Health Home Practice Lifestyle Yoga Breathing Exercises - Pranayama Yoga Philosophy and Meditation   More from About.com Run Your First 5K Even couch potatoes can be ready for a 5K with just a couple months of training. Read more...> Help! I'm Too Busy Time and stress management tips to help you feel as though you have more time. Read more...> This newsletter is written by: Ann Pizer Yoga Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Yoga newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About.com respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 © 2012 About.com   Must Reads What is Yoga? Yoga for Beginners - How to Start Yoga and Weight Loss Yoga Tips Sun Salutation - Step by Step   Follow me on: Advertisement